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The objective of this review is to comprehend the state of art for the production of various primary metabolites by microbial strains system, focusing on the selection of efficient strain and genetic or pathway modifications, applied during strain engineering. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.High body mass index is causally associated with most cardiovascular diseases but not stroke. Body mass index is determined by the content of both fat mass and fat-free mass, which may have opposite effects on cardiometabolic diseases. A Mendelian randomization (MR) study that utilized 82 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with fat mass or fat-free mass index revealed that fat mass index but not fat-free mass index was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease among 367 703 UK Biobank participants. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Photodynamic therapy is a promising alternative treatment for different types of cancer due to its high selectivity, which prevents healthy tissues from being damaged. The use of nanomaterials in photodynamic therapy has several advantages over classical photosensitizing agents, due to their unique properties and their ability to be functionalized. Especially interesting is the use of metallic nanoparticles, capable of absorbing electromagnetic radiation to either transfer this energy to oxygen molecules for the generation of ROS or dissipate it as heat. Although previous reports have demonstrated the capacity of Rh derivatives as anti-tumour drugs, there are no studies on the potential of small-sized Rh nanoparticles as photosensitizers in photodynamic therapy. In this study, 5 nm Rh nanoparticles has been synthesized and their potential in photodynamic therapy has been evaluated. The results have shown that treatment with Rh nanoparticles followed by NIR irradiation induces apoptosis in cancer cells through a p53-independent mechanism. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.Twenty percent of kidneys recovered for transplantation are discarded. The most common reason for not transplanting these kidneys is to organ quality and biopsy findings. Yet organ quality measures are not associated with discard rates and kidneys with poorer quality measures lead to greater life span for the recipient compared to staying on dialysis. Biopsy findings are not correlated with graft survival in most cases. The risk aversion of transplant centers from using "high-risk" kidneys can be, in part at least, attributed to negative consequences of poor graft survival with possible program sanctions or possible loss of insurance contracts. CMS has taken a first step by eliminating short-term graft survival as a performance measure for transplant centers. Many of the discarded kidneys will provided good results if transplanted and would recognize that patients value getting a transplant above graft survival. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is spreading quickly across the world, until a pandemic condition was announced by the WHO on March. Many clinical manifestations of this virus are described and new symptoms are emerging particularly outside respiratory sphere, such as anosmia and ageusia which are recent ORL published symptoms. About skin manifestation, few cases of rashes on patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 were described in two Chineses cohorts. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.This paper reports the formation of silver (Ag) NPs within spatially-resolved two-component hydrogel beads that combine a low-molecular-weight gelator (LMWG) DBS-CONHNH 2 and a polymer gelator (PG) calcium alginate. The AgNPs are formed via in situ reduction of Ag(I), with the resulting nanoparticle-loaded gels being characterised in detail. We tested the antibacterial activity of the nanocomposite gel beads against two drug-resistant bacterial strains, often associated with hospital-acquired infections vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA14), and the AgNP-loaded gels showed good antimicrobial properties against both types of bacteria. We suggest that the gel bead format of these AgNP-loaded hybrid hydrogels could make them promising versatile biocompatible materials for potential applications in orthopaedics or wound healing. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.We found that the article on "Cutaneous manifestations in COVID-19 a first perspective" is very interesting [1]. Recalcati noted that 20.4 % of the patients have cutaneous problem and mentioned that this is the first report on this clinical aspect of COVID-19. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Since December 2019, the COVID-19 (1) has spread throughout the world at a staggering speed. As of March 30, 2020, the confirmed case number has reached 693,224 globally and the COVID-19 has claimed 33,106 lives(2). Current researches emphasize on understanding of transmission patterns, severity, clinical features, and risk factors for infection, but the data remain limited. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Internal medicine has been immediately involved in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic in Italy, which started in late February 2020. The first few COVID-19 cases were suspected and diagnosed in internal medicine wards, including, among others, a young adult male from Codogno (referred to as "patient 1"), who was later transferred to the Intensive Care Unit of our hospital. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Bacteriophages may be formulated into semi-solid bases for therapeutic delivery. This work investigated the effects of a range of preservatives on the viability of Myoviridae and Siphoviridae bacteriophages when these were formulated into a standard semi-solid cream base. The six preservatives tested included benzoic acid (0.1%), chlorocresol (0.1%), combination hydroxybenzoates (propyl 4-hydroxybenzoates with methyl 4-hydroxybenzoates) (0.1%), methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate (0.08%), 2-phenoxyethanol (1%), and propyl 4-hydroxybenzoate (0.02%). These were each formulated into cetomacrogol cream aqueous to generate six individual semi-solid bases into which Myoviridae and Siphoviridae bacteriophages were added and tested for stability. Sirolimus Optimal bacteriophage stability was seen when the preservative chlorocresol was used. Bacteriophage in the acidic benzoic acid were the least stable, resulting in complete loss of viability after four to five weeks. Of the bacteriophages tested, the Myoviridae KOX1 was significantly more stable than the Siphoviridae PAC1 after 91 days in formulations with each of the preservatives.
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